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A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable.

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.